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Russia Cites Lax Security Behind Fatal Attack

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Richard Boudreaux

Updated Sept. 6, 2010 1:47 p.m. ET

MOSCOW—Russia's defense chief said Monday that lax security at a military base in southern Russia enabled a suicide attacker to crash its gates with a bomb-laden car, killing four soldiers and wounding 35 others in a blast officials blamed on the country's long-running Islamic insurgency.

Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov visited the base in Dagestan after President Dmitry Medvedev ordered him to lead an inquiry into Sunday's attack....